Happy New Year my loves!

It’s been quite a year hasn’t it? This has been the most eventful year I’ve had in some time. Huge highs and huge lows. I feel so blessed for everything that occurred this past year, and I’m so excited about next year! I would like to thank City Lit Theatre for my amazing experience there AND Peninsula Players for my life-altering dream of an experience there! (Click on either link to read about it!) And also my family. I always have to thank my family AND my friends. I would be lost without you.

So what’s coming up!? Lots of stuff!

First off I’d love to share this. My extremely talented friend Brigitte Ditmars has a blog called The Social Network Butterfly. This is what she’s trying to achieve in her own words: “A popular social network says I have over 500 friends! 504 to be exact. So I’ve invited each friend to join me in a drink. I have 365 days to make a personal connection with each and every one of them.”

So basically she’s meeting with each of her facebook friends to have drinks and blogging about each experience. It’s really fascinating and I was truly honored when she invited me to have drinks and then wrote about our time together. We talked a lot about our places in the theater community of Chicago and about the joys and trials of theatrical competition. Check it out! You can read about it HERE:  http://thesocialnetworkbutterfly.blogspot.com/2010/12/healthy-competition.html

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NEXT UP!

Playing March 3-April 17 2011

I’m thrilled to be making my Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago debut in Meet John Doe. MJD is a musical based on the classic film by Frank Capra starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper.

MEET JOHN DOE

Music by Andrew Gerle, Lyrics by Eddie Sugarman

Book by Andrew Gerle and Eddie Sugarman, Additional Story by Matt August

In a last-ditch effort to save her job, a newspaper columnist fabricates an anonymous letter from a reader threatening suicide over the state of the nation. Capitalizing on the public’s reaction to the letter, she convinces the paper not only to keep her employed, but to hire an out of work baseball player to be her “John Doe.” But can a social movement borne from a media ruse succeed as a catalyst for change?

Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago

2814 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago, IL 60657

773-325-9884

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AND THEN!!!!!

I am still completely over the moon to be playing Violet in Bailiwick Chicago’s production of Violet. I’ll be sharing a lot more information as the show gets closer. I may even keep a stage diary.

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That’s it for now folks! I hope that you had a wonderful New Years Eve and that you have an inspiring 2011. If there is anything I learned in 2010 it is that nothing is guaranteed. So stop and smell the flowers my lovelies. Enjoy it! Love you!

Harmony